9-letter words containing d, i, a, t
- steadiest — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- steradian — a solid angle at the center of a sphere subtending a section on the surface equal in area to the square of the radius of the sphere. Abbreviation: sr.
- steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- stranding — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- streisand — Barbra. born 1942, US singer, actress, and film director: the films she has acted in include Funny Girl (1968) and A Star is Born (1976); her films as actress and director include Yentl (1983), Prince of Tides (1990), and The Mirror has Two Faces (1996)
- studiable — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- sustained — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- tableside — the area around or beside a table.
- tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
- tail skid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
- tail wind — a wind blowing in the same direction as the course of a ship or aircraft
- tailboard — the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
- tailender — a person at the tail end, esp (in cricket) the batter or batters last in the batting order
- tailslide — the backward descent of an aeroplane after stalling or losing speed while in an upward trajectory
- taligrade — walking on the outer side of the foot.
- talmudist — a person versed in the Talmud.
- tanalised — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tanalized — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- taxidermy — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- teniacide — an agent that destroys tapeworms.
- tepidaria — in Ancient Rome, the warm rooms of the baths
- tetradite — a person who believes that the number four has supernatural significance
- thanatoid — resembling or like death
- the media — all the means of communication, as newspapers, radio, and TV, that provide the public with news, entertainment, etc., usually along with advertising
- theandric — relating to the state of being both divine and human, esp pertaining to Christ
- theodosia — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “god-given.”.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- thibodaux — a city in SE Louisiana.
- thickhead — a stupid person; blockhead.
- thio acid — an acid in which part or all of the oxygen has been replaced by sulfur.
- third ear — intuition.
- third man — Cricket. the position of a fielder on the off side between slip and point. the fielder occupying this position.
- third way — The Third Way is used to refer to a set of political beliefs and principles that is neither extremely right-wing nor extremely left-wing.
- thirdhand — previously used or owned by two successive people.
- thirdsman — an intermediary or arbitrator; the third person
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- threading — twisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing.
- thylakoid — a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.
- thyroidal — of or relating to the thyroid gland
- tide gage — a gauge for measuring the level of the tide: usually equipped with a marigraph.
- tide gate — a gate through which water flows when the tide is in one direction and that closes automatically when the tide is in the opposite direction.
- tide race — a fast-running tidal current
- tidewater — water affected by the flow and ebb of the tide.
- tidy away — When you tidy something away, you put it in something else so that it is not in the way.
- toad spit — cuckoo spit (sense 1)